kennedy a socialist he would not have been invited back on face the nation even even have an end of the political system. the political the political. some of the time because the media system reinforce a political system that forced cooperation and one of the things that has really changed is that our. you know people always say it's worse than it used to be and if you say it long enough people think what can and can't always be true that it was worse than it used to be but if you're in a long slow decline you can be and you a political system in the united states that is functioning worse and worse and you say i want my favorite quotes about politics a lot of tip o'neill's he was interviewed when he left office and had served since the early fifty's more than thirty years and he was asked how the congress changed in his time and he said the people are better the results are worse are we in a long slow decline right now little institutions of the country are in a long slow so what i mean we've we've seen these cycles we saw the the eruption of the new deal we saw the eruption of re